Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convinced of the possibility of German air raids on the United States coast, a group of architects and engineers, headed by Harold B. Willis '12 are now conducting a survey to determine the best way to provide Boston with air raid shelters...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...
LONDON, Wednesday--Bombs dropped on a midlands town in a short but vicious raid last night caused some casualties and considerable damage while a lively flurry of activity over London petered out and the all-clear signal was sounded before midnight...
...Reported missing last week after an Italian bomber raid into Greece, presumably dead or captured, was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, who resigned as Secretary of the Fascist Party to get actively into the fighting. After several days he turned up alive, whereupon Mussolini gave him a silver medal (his ninth) for organizing and leading an October long-range bombing raid on the defenseless Bahrein Archipelago oil fields...
...letter to the editor of the Lancet last fortnight, a Glasgow doctor named Stanley Alstead offered an ingenious suggestion for deodorizing underground raid shelters. "I understand," wrote he, "that the stench in a London tube after it has been used for a night is beyond belief. . . . Old-fashioned charcoal [ might ] help in this connexion. Its power in abolishing smells is very considerable and has largely been lost sight of. . . . [ I heard of ]; a pharmacologist who actually put a dead cat into a charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests...